“Loyalty is easy when there’s nothing to lose. The real test is when there’s everything.”
The fight was a blur of teeth and claws, snarls and the sickening sound of impact. Kade moved like the storm he was — all golden fury, each strike meant to maim. The stranger met him blow for blow, unnervingly calm, his black eyes locked on me even while Kade’s claws raked down his side.
I couldn’t breathe. My body wanted to shift, to join the fight, but Ronan stood in the doorway like a wall, his shoulders blocking my only way out.
“What are you doing?” I demanded, my voice breaking.
“Keeping you alive,” he said without looking at me.
“By trapping me in here?”
His jaw tightened. “You don’t understand what he is.”
I glanced back just in time to see Kade get slammed into the wall, the wood splin
